Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-11-23
FOREIGN GAME BIRDS.

The Turf, Field and Farm gives some
very interesting information touching the
current introduction of foreign game birds
into this country. Prominent among these
birds is the pheasant. Mr.. Lorillard has
experimental successfully with the pleas
ant, on his New Jersey place. MI. l.. says
that with proper attention pheasant breed
ing should prove a success that from
eighty hens he raised one thousand pleas
ants this season, and these will provide
great shooting for himself and friends.
Farmers, in this section, are Matching
the eggs of the pheasants under tame
chickens and raising the birds for market
with success. Besides the pheasant Mr..
Lorillard is now stocking his preserves
with roe deer and English rabbits and
hares. Mr.. Rutherford Stuyvesant is a
large game preserver at Alamuchi, War
rem county, N. J. There is now on the
way to this country a large lot of English
pheasants for the game preserves in that
vicinity, some of which will he turned out
by J.. D. Cheever, on Long Island. These
pheasants are from Bohemia, where they
are raised in vast numbers for the English
preserves. It is almost impossible to OBJ
tain live pheasants in England, owing TO
the extravaganza manner in which they are
shot off there yearly. Though called
"English pheasants," these birds are origi-
nally from Asia. They were first. intro
duced to Bohemia, and from thence to
England. The eggs of the pheasant are
found by dogs trained for the purpose, just
as dogs are broken to hunt for truthes.
When the birds are full grown they. are
collected all over Saxony and Bohemia
and sent to Alfeld in large wicker baskets
covered with MANILA bagging. These
baskets are fiat, being not over one foot
high. The birds are then put in immense
a~varies, and when a sufficient number IS
collected they are put into light wooden
crates with canvas tops, generally about
twenty in each box, and sent via Bremen
to this CITY on the North German Lloyd
steamers. The birds are daily cleaned and
given an abundance of dry sand, and are
fed twice a day on a variety of prepared
foods, which include cabbage and greens.
The water-cups are hung on the outside OF
the crates and reached for by the birds
through holes in the sides of the crates.
This prevents the birds from getting wet
and chilling. Fresh water is given morn
ing, noon and evening. The pheasants
are shipped in the hold of the steamer, in
charge of an attendant. They are brought
in the proportion of one cock to three hens.
The cocks are terrible fighters and the men
who handle them have to wear gloves to
prevent their hands from being picked
to pieces. The cartridges are brought IN
pairs.
The introduction of foreign game to
America is now commanding the attention
of many sportsmen. In return for the
many pheasants and cartridges we are be-
ginning to ship thousands of the common
quail, California quail, prairie chickens,
grouse and turkeys to Europe. ,
Fifteen years ago Mr., Reiche shipped
several thousand pheasants to Cuba, Vera
Cruz in Mexico, and to various points in
South America. In all these places the
birds have increased where they were
protected and cared for. During the past
three years one firm in New York city,
has imported 5000 English pheasants, 1000
cartridges, a number of Messina quail, $50
roe-deer, 1000 English hares, 1000 English
rabbits, and so wild boars, besides a num-
Der of red deer, fallow deer and several